Table 1.
Corpus of Yan Lianke’s English-translated Novels.
Table 2.
Contemporary Chinese Writers’ English Translated Novels Corpus.
Table 3.
Overused semantic domains in the target corpus relative to the reference corpus.
Table 4.
Politics in pattern of political discourse.
Fig 1.
Collocations of revolution and political.
Table 5.
Parts of buildings in spatial narrative pattern.
Fig 2.
Collocations of room, door and courtyard.
Table 6.
Color and color patterns in color symbolism pattern.
Fig 3.
Collocations of red, white and black.
Table 7.
Religion and supernatural in the supernatural pattern.
Fig 4.
Collocations of heaven, theologian and temple.